Labor chief heard Baillieu tape: newspaper

VICTORIAN Opposition leader Daniel Andrews' chief of staff listened to a leaked recording of a conversation between a journalist and former Liberal premier Ted Baillieu weeks before it was made public, the Herald Sun newspaper says.

THE revelation follows an accusation from The Age newspaper on Friday that unnamed senior figures within Mr Andrews' office and the Labor party of removing from lost property a tape recorder dropped by an Age journalist at the Labor state conference in May.